Rescued ex-mayor: 'Two more days trapped behind football clubhouse and I could have died'

A former mayor says he prayed to God that someone would find him after he became wedged between the back of a building and a fence while trying to take a daring shortcut.Chris Cummins’s prayers were answered when a member of a football club’s management team heard his cries for help in time to save him. “I’m told had I been there for another two days I may well have died,” said Mr Cummins.His near-fatal predicament came about in February after he tried to cut behind Redbridge Football Club to get to Barkingside underground station in east London. Image: Mr Cummins has spoken to Sky News about his ordeal It’s a shortcut that should have seemed a daunting task to anyone, not least a 75-year-old. The gap between the back of the clubhouse and a fence leading onto an area of overgrowth is so slim that Mr Cummins ended up trying to crawl through the space.”There’s a pipe along the wall and then suddenly it dips so I couldn’t get under it and there was another obstacle, and things sticking out, which prevented me from getting further down. So basically I was jammed.” Mr Cummins, who is the ex-mayor of
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